To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands.
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine (1869)
I have ideas and I’m gathering flowers but I’m not quite ready to weave them into garlands just yet.
Water
Love is not to be cultivated. Love cannot be divided into divine and physical; it is only love — not that you love many or the one. That again is an absurd question to ask: ‘Do you love all?’ You know, a flower that has perfume is not concerned who comes to smell it, or who turns his back upon it. So is love. Love is not a memory. Love is not a thing of the mind or the intellect. But it comes into being naturally as compassion, when this whole problem of existence — as fear, greed, envy, depair, hope — has been understood and resolved.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Waterfall and orchids.)
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
~ Lao Tzu
(Anglins Fishing Pier. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.)
Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
~ Johann von Goethe
I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
(Dressed for the beach. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida)
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself — your strengths and your limitations — in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
~ Judith M. Bardwick
(Colorado River. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.)
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
~ Mary Ann Brussat
(Sunrise. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida)
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that … Accept that it’s unknown, and it’s plain sailing.
~ John Lennon
(First-day rainbow. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.)
The wonder of a moment in which there is nothing but an upwelling of simple happiness is utterly awesome.
~ Regina Sara Ryan
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Bountiful Healing 